δημοκρατία
See also: δημοκρατίᾳ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- δᾱμοκρᾰτίᾱ (dāmokratíā) – Doric
Etymology
Derived from δῆμος (dêmos, “common people", "assembly of the people”) + -κρατία (-kratía, “power”, “rule”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.mo.kra.tí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝.mo.kraˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.mo.kraˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.mo.kraˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.mo.kraˈti.a/
Noun
δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ • (dēmokratíā) f (genitive δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (politics, uncountable) democracy, popular government
- (countable) a democratic government
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.43.3:
- Τοὺς γὰρ τυράννους τῶν Ἰώνων καταπαύσας πάντας ὁ Μαρδόνιος δημοκρατίας κατίστα ἐς τὰς πόλιας.
- Toùs gàr turánnous tôn Iṓnōn katapaúsas pántas ho Mardónios dēmokratías katísta es tàs pólias.
- 1910 translation by George Rawlinson
- Mardonius put down all the despots throughout Ionia, and in lieu of them established democracies
- Τοὺς γὰρ τυράννους τῶν Ἰώνων καταπαύσας πάντας ὁ Μαρδόνιος δημοκρατίας κατίστα ἐς τὰς πόλιας.
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Sages 154e:
- Ὁ Βίας ἔφησε κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν ἐν ᾗ πάντες ὡς τύραννον φοβοῦνται τὸν νόμον.
- Ho Bías éphēse kratístēn eînai dēmokratían en hêi pántes hōs túrannon phoboûntai tòn nómon.
- Bias said that the strongest democracy is that wherein all fear the law as their tyrant.
- Ὁ Βίας ἔφησε κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν ἐν ᾗ πάντες ὡς τύραννον φοβοῦνται τὸν νόμον.
- inflection of δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā):
- nominative/vocative singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative dual
Inflection
First declension of ἡ δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ hē dēmokratíā | τὼ δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ tṑ dēmokratíā | αἱ δημοκρᾰτῐ́αι hai dēmokratíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tês dēmokratíās | τοῖν δημοκρᾰτῐ́αιν toîn dēmokratíain | τῶν δημοκρᾰτῐῶν tôn dēmokratiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾳ têi dēmokratíāi | τοῖν δημοκρᾰτῐ́αιν toîn dēmokratíain | ταῖς δημοκρᾰτῐ́αις taîs dēmokratíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱν tḕn dēmokratíān | τὼ δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ tṑ dēmokratíā | τᾱ̀ς δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s dēmokratíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ dēmokratíā | δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ dēmokratíā | δημοκρᾰτῐ́αι dēmokratíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δημοκρᾰτέω/-ῶ, δημοκρᾰτέομαι/-οῦμαι
- Δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Dēmokratíā)
- δημοκρᾰτῐκός (dēmokratikós)
Descendants
- Greek: δημοκρατία f (dimokratía)
- Latin: dēmocratia (Mediaeval)
- Middle French: democratie
- French: démocratie
- → Danish: demokrati n
- → Dutch: democratie f
- Afrikaans: demokrasie
- → Indonesian: démokrasi
- → German: Demokratie f
- → Hebrew: דֵּמוֹקְרַטְיָה f
- → Romanian: democrație f
- → Turkish: demokrasi
- → Norman: démocratie
- → Czech: demokracie
- → English: democracy
- → Amharic: ዴሞክራሲ (demokrasi)
- → Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီ (dimuika.reci)
- → Cebuano: demokrasya
- → Chinese: 得莫克拉西 (démòkèlāxī), 德謨克拉西/德谟克拉西 (démókèlāxī)
- → Malay: demokrasi
- → S'gaw Karen: ဒံၣ်မိၣ်ခြ့ၣ်စံၣ် (deè moh̀ khraỳ seè)
- → Swahili: demokrasia
- → Western Kayah: ꤘꤟꤤ꤬ꤗꤥ꤬ꤊꤚꤢꤩ꤬ꤎꤤ꤬ (dì̤mòkrèsì)
- French: démocratie
- Italian: democrazia
- Portuguese: democracia
- Sicilian: dimucrazzìa
- Spanish: democracia
- Norwegian Bokmål: demokrati
- Norwegian Nynorsk: demokrati
- Swedish: demokrati
- Middle French: democratie
- Russian: демокра́тия f (demokrátija) (see there for further descendants)
See also
- ἰσονομία (isonomía)
References
- “δημοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δημοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δημοκρατία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δημοκρατία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- commonwealth idem, page 149.
- democracy idem, page 209.
- republic idem, page 699.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā, “democracy, popular government”). Morphologically δημο- (dimo-, “from δῆμος the people”) + -κρατία (-kratía, “from κράτος strength; dominion, state”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði.mo.kɾaˈti.a/
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Noun
δημοκρατία • (dimokratía) f (plural δημοκρατίες)
- democracy
- republic
- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ― Ellinikí Dimokratía ― Hellenic Republic
Declension
declension of δημοκρατία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | δημοκρατία • | δημοκρατίες • |
genitive | δημοκρατίας • | δημοκρατιών • |
accusative | δημοκρατία • | δημοκρατίες • |
vocative | δημοκρατία • | δημοκρατίες • |
Derived terms
- Δημοκρατία των Σκοπίων f (Dimokratía ton Skopíon, “Republic of Skopje”)
- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία f (Ellinikí Dimokratía, “Hellenic Republic”)
- Κεντροαφρικανική Δημοκρατία f (Kentroafrikanikí Dimokratía, “Central African Republic”)
Related terms
- see: δήμος m (dímos, “municipality, the people”)
Further reading
δημοκρατία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el